SLOWING DOWN
EARTH WILL STOP SOME DAY (Received 30th January, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 29th January. Sir Oliver Lodge predicts that the time is certain when the earth will stop spinning and the moon crash upon it. The speed at which the earth is rotating is gradually slowing down to the friction of tides. The moon is no longer spinning because the earth produced tides in which it stopped its rotation. There was a time when the earth spun so fast that a day was only four hours long. The moon was then part of the earth, but broke away, and has moved further away ever since. When the earth's rotation ceased the process would be reversed and the moon return and crash down upon her parent. "Stupid people even at the present day," he said, "take the great poem of the First Chapter of Genesis, and interpret it literally. There was a sort of disturbance when science discovered that the universe was not brought into existe'nee in a great hurry over a period of 144 hours."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 30 January 1928, Page 10
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176SLOWING DOWN Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 30 January 1928, Page 10
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